STAT: A Web-based Semantic Text Annotation Tool to Assist Building Mental Health Knowledge Base.

Mental health problems are serious among American adults and many of them are turning to the Internet for help. However, online mental health information is not well-organized and in low quality. We are building a mental health knowledge base (MHKB) with evidence-based information extracted from scientific literature manually, but lacking efficiency. We envision to leverage collective wisdoms through crowdsourcing to speed up the curation of MHKB. In order to integrate with crowdsourcing platforms, we designed and prototyped a web-based annotation tool, STAT (Semantic Text Annotation Tool), with real-time annotation recommendation and annotation quality analysis, to facilitate management of laypeople annotators recruited through crowdsourcing to complete the necessary annotation tasks.